435 - Haf-witted Scientific Discoveries On Record, Hockey Fans Are Insensitive About New Jersey Logos, and A Backlog Of Homicidal Cuties

[8:04 AM] Mr. Silver:

Call me paranoid but I swear Physorg puts these kinds of things up to irritate me.

http://phys.org/news/2017-01-electric-field-magnetic-properties-nonmagnetic.html

"Scientists discover how to magnetize non-magnetic materials by adding magnetic materials!" 

"This is the first time this process has been proposed and successfully tested...since it was invented in 1927."

[8:05 AM] Mr. Blue:

Heh

[8:08 AM] Mr. Silver:

"The scientists -- all too young to have ever used or seen an audio tape -- were amazed at the potential for storing and playing back data, like for computers or...from a futurist perspective...music or even video for public consumption."

"A senior member of staff seemed skeptical of the medium's value, but did suggest titling the process the 'Walkman' process, and suggested in the future that consumers might be able to order miniature reels of the data in the future starting at 15 sets for a penny, and then one a month at regular club prices."

"The team confessed that they didn't understand the joke, but said 'He's, like, old.'."

I can't actually decide what was more irritating: the stupid technical claim, or the technological ignorance.

…

This, of course, begs the question "does Mr. Blue know what a 'music club' was?"...

[8:16 AM] Mr. Blue:

Like a disco?

[8:17 AM] Mr. Silver:

Nope

[9:21 AM] Ms. Rose:

*inserts self into conversation about useless-sounding science*

In other breaking news: NASA has figured out that the moon is approx. 4.51 billion years old. This is up from previous estimates at between 100-200 million years old. There is some guy (probably several guys) whose full-time job is to figure out how old the moon is.

[9:22 AM] Mr. Blue:

100-200 sounds awfully young

[9:22 AM] Ms. Rose:

Right?!

[9:23 AM] Mr. Blue:

It’d have to be older than the oldest life on earth which is like 3 billion years ago

[9:24 AM] Ms. Rose:

Establishing the age of the Moon is critical to understanding solar system evolution and the formation of rocky planets, including Earth. However, despite its importance, the age of the Moon has never been accurately determined. We present uranium-lead dating of Apollo 14 zircon fragments that yield highly precise, concordant ages, demonstrating that they are robust against postcrystallization isotopic disturbances. Hafnium isotopic analyses of the same fragments show extremely low initial ¹⁷⁶Hf/¹⁷⁷Hf ratios corrected for cosmic ray exposure that are near the solar system initial value. Our data indicate differentiation of the lunar crust by 4.51 billion years, indicating the formation of the Moon within the first ~60 million years after the birth of the solar system.

[9:25 AM] Mr. Blue:

Last I remember. they think a meteor hit earth and broke a big chunk off, and the chunk, the meteor, and the debris formed the moon while Earth was still molten

[9:25 AM] Ms. Rose:

Probably has something to do with flux capacitors and dilithium crystals, too. Obvi.

[9:30 AM] Mr. Silver:

The moon is like 6000 years old according to Biblical technology

They didn't need to check no halfnium or quarternium or anything.

[9:31 AM] Ms. Rose:

(rofl)(rofl)(rofl)

[9:33 AM] Mr. Silver:

Hafnium, as we all know, occurs naturally in nature:

All they had to do was check the expiration date

[9:34 AM] Ms. Rose:

So we're not the only ones with coffee break problems. It happens to NASA too. (rofl)

[12:00 PM] Mr. Blue:

So LA went from 0 NFL teams to 2 in 1 year

[12:00 PM] Mr. Silver:

Oooh...math problem for college jocks!

(Gets out paper)

[12:02 PM] Ms. Rose:

I know practically nothing about football. But I was proud to inform Mr. Oleo's dad that the Houston Texans used to be the Houston Oilers. But not the same as the hockey Edmonton Oilers.

We need to bring back the Quebec Nordiques. What the heck is a "nordique?"

[12:03 PM] Mr. Blue:

A northern person

[12:03 PM] Ms. Rose:

No wonder they got cancelled...

[12:04 PM] Mr. Blue:

They moved

[12:04 PM] Ms. Rose:

Shush.

[12:04 PM] Mr. Blue:

But they might come back

They built a new arena and they're petitioning for a team

[12:05 PM] Ms. Rose:

Of all the dumb hockey team logos from the 80's, I always remember theirs. Like a little man who fell over and lost his head on giant letter 'L'.

[12:06 PM] Mr. Blue:

I have a Nordiques hat from when I was a kid.. loved that hat

I have no idea what the logo is

I mean the stick I see but I don't know what the igloo thing is

[12:06 PM] Ms. Rose:

"Man with large butt leans over as 'L' is chopping off his friend's head"

[12:07 PM] Mr. Blue:

They were going to change the logo the year they moved

It was gonna be like a timberwolf thing

[12:07 PM] Ms. Rose:

I'm seeing some of the wolf pictures on the Google image search.

"We don't even know what a nordique is either, so here is a picture of a wolf."

[12:07 PM] Mr. Blue:

Logos are interesting

The Winnipeg Jets moved to Phoenix and became the Coyotes

Then the Winnipeg Jets came back but they couldn't use their old logo because it's property of the Coyotes franchise

[12:08 PM] Ms. Rose:

Yeah I still don't understand hockey teams in extremely warm climates.

[12:08 PM] Mr. Blue:

The Nordiques will have the same issue... it's owned by the Colorado Avalanche

[12:09 PM] Ms. Rose:

I feel like even if I didn't live here, I'd still think the Pens logo was pretty cool.

I am sooo glad we went back to the actual-penguin-looking logo, instead of that pointy thing.

[12:10 PM] Mr. Blue:

Yeah it's a good one

I like the Oilers... not necessary the logo but the color combo is cool

Purplish blue and orange... don't see that often

I think they're contrasting colors

[12:11 PM] Ms. Rose:

Yeah, that one is cool.

NJ is just always going to look hilarious, in their green shorts and red sweaters.

[12:12 PM] Mr. Blue:

They're getting new jerseys for the first time in their history

[12:12 PM] Ms. Rose:

Good for them! About time.

Ohhhh, I see. They are moving to an extremely dark shade of green, called "black."

[12:12 PM] Mr. Blue:

You ever see the face in the Minnesota Wild logo?

[12:12 PM] Ms. Rose:

No! Looking...

Oh wait. Like the left-facing toothy animal face?

[12:13 PM] Mr. Blue:

Yeah

[12:13 PM] Ms. Rose:

Yeah, I picked up on that.

[12:13 PM] Mr. Blue:

Someone had to point that out to me

[12:14 PM] Mr. Silver:

Me?  I just like the Boston Basketballs

[12:14 PM] Ms. Rose:

(rofl)

[12:14 PM] Mr. Blue:

And the Boston Sell-tics

[12:15 PM] Mr. Silver:

Ugh...those fans...

This is a celt "selt"  So, for instance, one could name a team The Boston Celts

This is a Celt “Kelt” So one might celebrate their Celtic culture with The Boston Celts

[12:17 PM] Mr. Blue:

The team whose games you can't attend with your parents https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macon_Whoopee_(CHL)

[12:18 PM] Ms. Rose:

(rofl)(rofl)(rofl)

[12:18 PM] Mr. Silver:

Awesome

[12:18 PM] Mr. Blue:

Facilitating the double entendre, the second team's mascot was the whooping crane, menaced by a bee ("the birds and the bees").

Unbelievable

[12:18 PM] Mr. Silver:

(adores)

[12:18 PM] Ms. Rose:

So awesome.

[12:18 PM] Mr. Silver:

Better than the Swastikas!

Well...no

Then there's this culturally sensitive selection

[12:29 PM] Mr. Blue:

Terrific

I assume because Pekin sounds like Peking/Beijing?

[12:30 PM] Ms. Rose:

Wow! (rofl)

[12:30 PM] Mr. Silver:

I've seen it on old maps and texts as Pekin anyway

[12:31 PM] Ms. Rose:

“Damn those Chinks! We're never going to beat them!”

[12:32 PM] Mr. Silver:

"There's like a billion guys on their team too"

[12:34 PM] Ms. Rose:

(rofl)

[12:50 PM] Mr. Silver:

Blog is in trouble

I have a backlog of 20 pages

(x11)

(+)

I suppose I should...do something with them.

(This has grown considerably – Mr. Silver)

[12:51 PM] Ms. Rose:

:O Look out, Russia!

[12:53 PM] Mr. Silver:

I mean...it's all the way back to making fun of Ste. Olga of Kiev and hoping her spirit didn't come to bless us to death in fire for making fun of her.

"Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Olga"

"Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles-if-the-Apostles-were-Bloodthirsty-Rus-Maniacs Olga"

"Holy Pope-Pleads-Please-Don't-Kill-Everyone-in-the-Vatican-I’ll-Make-You-a-Saint Olga of Kiev"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev

She's one of the kind of saint that Mr. Blue tells us is a cutie during her televised murder trial footage

[1:02 PM] Mr. Blue:

Heh

I remember that link

It came up when we were talking about diplomatic messengers who get burned or their heads lopped off

“These foreigners don't understand our customs.. have them tortured and killed”

[1:09 PM] Mr. Silver:

"Olga was too cute to be called 'Blood Drinking Hell Fiend of Kiev', and there was a translation mistake in the Papal Interdict."

[1:12 PM] Mr. Blue:

Like Ivan the Terrible

Terrible is actually intended to mean it in a good way.

[1:12 PM] Mr. Silver:

LOL

Elizabeth Bathory

"It's a portmanteau of "bath" and "gory".”

[1:21 PM] Mr. Blue:

Too bad... her castle was ruined in the 18th century...

Looks bad ass... that's in a lake

[1:22 PM] Ms. Rose:

I would totally live there.

[1:23 PM] Mr. Silver

You'd love the baths